Money containers



Nov- 3 1965 4L. MINTZES ETAL MONEY CONTAINERS Filed March 17. 1964 al II I i R 2.

]N VEN TORS ATTORNEY United States Patent 3,220,452 MONEY CONTAINERSLouis Mintzes, 17 Radcliffe Road, Island Park, N.Y., and Arnold Walach,19804 56th Ave, Flushing, N.Y. Filed Mar. 17, 1964, Ser. No. 352,485 2Claims. (Cl. 150-38) This invention relates to personal money containersof the type commonly known as wallets or billfolds.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a money containerwhich is constructed and arranged to prevent its theft or surreptitiousremoval from the person or the persons wearing apparel, and which isalso constructed and arranged to provide ready access by the person tothe contents of the container.

Another object is to provide a money container having one or more of thefollowing features: (1) a pocket for concealingpaper money and soarranged in the container that unauthorized access to said pocket isimpossible or extremely difiicult; (2) means for attaching the containerto a belt of a persons trousers or other garment and in such a way as toenable money to be removed from the container while it remains attachedto the belt; (3) the provision of an auxiliary paper money holder; and(4) improved means for attaching the money container at one or moreparts thereof in a garment pocket or to any other suitable part of anarticle of wearing apparel.

A further object of the invention is generally to provide a moneycontainer which is of simple and inexpensive construction and which iswell adapted to fulfill the above stated objects.

The invention will be more fully understood from the full descriptionconsidered in connection with the accompanying illustrative drawings ofthe presently preferred embodiments of the invention.

In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a view of the inner side of the money container in itsunfolded condition;

FIG. 2 is a view of the outer side of the money container in itsunfolded condition;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view on a larger scale taken along line 33 of FIG.1;

FIG. 4 is a sectional View on a larger scale taken along line 44 of FIG.1;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the money container in its foldedcondition;

FIGURE 6 is a view of the inner side of an alternative embodiment of themoney container, and

FIGURE 7 is a sectional view taken along line 77 of FIGURE 6.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, the money container of thepresent invention comprises an outer wall 10 of leather, plastic, or anyother suitable sheet material which is foldable along a transverse linebetween the opposite ends of said wall. As here shown, wall 10 comprisesthe superimposed layers 10a and 10b. An inner wall 12 of foldable sheetmaterial is stitched or otherwise suitably secured to wall 10 at theside edges 14 and 'the edge 16 at one end of the container. An end part18 of inner wall 12 is free from securement to Wall 10, said unsecuredend part being outlined by the side edges '20 and the end edge 22. Amain pocket extending from the end edge 22 of wall 12 is thus providedin the container and has an access opening at said end edge 22 of wall12.

Provision is made for releasably securing the money container in thefolded condition illustrated in FIG. 5. The releasable closure meanscomprises a band 24 which is stitched or otherwise secured to the endedge 22 of wall 12, as indicated at 26, and which extends through anopening, here shown as a slit 28, in wall 10 externally of the moneycontainer. Band 24 has a folded portion "ice 30 which overlies the innerside of outer wall 10. Said folded portion 30 is stitched to anunderlying portion 32 of the outer end of band 24, as indicated at 34,forming an open-ended loop 36 at the external edge of the container toreceive the releasable prong 38 of a suitable fastener, such as a safetypin 40. Portion 30 of the closure band 24 is provided with a snapfastener 42 releasably engageable with a companion snap fastener 44provided on wall 10 near edge 16 thereof for releasably securing thecontainer in the folded condition illustrated by FIG. 5.

The provision for said safety pin removably attached to the moneycontainer is, of course, for the securement of the money container tothe persons garment or article of wearing apparel either within a pocketor to some other part of the garment where it is concealed from view.However, the money container may be secured in its unfolded condition bythe safety pin 40 or by a garment belt indicated at B in FIGS. 1 and 5,said garment belt being disposed between the inner side of wall 10 andthe confronting part of band 24. If desired, a second safety pin 46 maybe removably attached at the end of the container opposite the end atwhich safety pin 40 is attached, preferably in the manner hereinaftermore particularly described with reference to the auxiliary moneyretainer member 48.

The auxiliary money retainer member 48 preferably comprises, in integralrelation, a transverse band 50 stitched or otherwise secured at itsopposite ends by the means which secures the side edges of walls 10 and12 to each other, as indicated at 14, and a longitudinal part 52 whichis secured to side walls 10 and 12 by the means which secures the endsof said walls to each other, as indicated at 16. The outer end of part52 of the auxiliary retainer member is provided with an open end loopportion 54 to receive the releasable prong of the safety pin 46.

The money container is provided with means for releasably securing moneywhich is disposed in the auxiliary retainer member 48, said releasablesecuring means comprising a spring metal clip 56 which can be a simplewell known paper clip. It has a part 58 disposed outwardly of the clipretaining pocket 60, which is secured to inner wall 12 and an inner part62 which extends into pocket 60 through a top opening thereof, asclearly shown by FIG. 3. Band 24 has an inner free portion 64 whichoverlies the opening of pocket 60 for releasably retaining clip 56 inposition. It will be understood that clip 56 cooperates with auxiliaryretainer member 48 for releasably holding paper money in the container,it being intended that one or two bills of small denomination will bethus made available for ready removal from the container. For thispurpose the readily accessible money would be inserted between retainer48 and inner wall 12 and between clip 56 and clip retaining pocket 60.

The form of the invention illustrated by FIGS. 6 and 7 is the same asthat shown by FIGS. 1 to 5 except that the money-retaining clip 56 shownin FIGS. 1 and 2 is replaced by a flat strip 63 of relatively stiffmaterial, for example aluminum or plastic, which is positioned betweenthe wall 12 and member 60 between the lines of stitching 64. Strip 63 isprovided with a notch 66 in each of its opposite ends and a rubber band68 is held in said notches. It will be understood that the readilyaccessible money would be inserted between the retainer 48 and the partof the rubber band 68 which overlies the strip 63 and the member 60.

While we have shown and described the preferred embodiment of theinvention, it will be understood that the invention may be embodiedotherwise than as herein specifically illustrated or described, and thatcertain changes in the form and arrangement of parts and in the specificmanner of practicing the invention may be made without departing fromthe underlying idea or principles of this invention within the scope ofthe appended claims.

What is claimed is:

1. A personal money container comprising an outer wall and an inner walldefining a pocket for paper money, said Walls being foldable about atransverse line between their opposite ends, said inner wall having anand part free from direct securement to said outer wall to provide saidpocket with an access opening, said outer wall having an openingtherethrough in the vicinity of said end part of said inner wall, andmeans for releasably holding paper money at the inner side of the pocketin position external- I 1y of said pocket comprising a pair of retainingmembers secured in position at opposite sides, respectively, of saidtransverse line, one of said members being T-shaped having a transversepart extending transversely of said inner wall and a longitudinal partextending from an inter- ,mediate portion of said transverse part to thesecured end 1 said pocket with an access opening, said outer Wall havingan opening therethrough in the vicinity of said end part of said innerwall, and means for releasably holding paper money at the inner side ofthe pocket in position externally of said pocket comprising a pair ofretaining members secured in position at opposite sides, respectively,of said transverse line, one of said members being T-shaped having atransverse part extending transversely of said inner wall and alongitudinal part extending from an intermediate portion of saidtransverse part to the secured end of said inner wall, said longitudinalpart having an open-ended loop adjacent said secured end of the innerwall adjacent an external edge of the container to receive thereleasable prong of a safety pin for securing the container to a part ofthe persons wearing apparel.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 773,392 8/1904Holsapple -38 1,525,333 2/1925 Speirs 15042 1,832,625 11/1931 Gardner15039 2,575,030 11/ 1951 Smallman 150-38 2,595,003 4/1952 Searnon 150-382,651,346 9/1953 Nash 150-38 JGSEPH R. LECLAIR, Primary Examiner.

1. A PERSONAL MONEY CONTAINER COMPRISING AN OUTER WALL AND AN INNER WALLDEFINING A POCKET FOR PAPER MONEY, SAID WALLS BEING FOLDABLE ABOUT ATRANSVERSE LINE BETWEEN THEIR OPPOSITE ENDS, SAID INNER WALL HAVING ANEND PART FREE FROM DIRECT SECUREMENT TO SAID OUTER WALL TO PROVIDE SAIDPOCKET WITH AN ACCESS OPENING, SAID OUTER WALL HAVING AN OPENINGTHERETHROUGH IN THE VICINITY OF SAID END PART OF SAID INNER WALL, ANDMEANS FOR RELEASABLY HOLDING PAPER MONEY AT THE INNER SIDE OF THE POCKETIN POSITION EXTERNALLY OF SAID POCKET COMPRISING A PAIR OF RETAININGMEMBERS SECURED IN POSITION AT OPPOSITE SIDES, RESPECTIVELY, OF SAIDTRANSVERSE LINE, ONE OF SAID MEMBERS BEING T-SHAPED HAVING A TRANSVERSEPART EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF SAID INNER WALL AND A LONGITUDINAL PARTEXTENDING FROM AN INTERMEDIATE PORTION OF SAID TRANSVERSE PART TO THESECURED END OF SAID INNER WALL, SAID LONGITUDINAL PART HAVING SIDE EDGESSPACED FROM THE SIDE EDGES OF SAID INNER WALL.